I see you have requested the recipe for the salad dressing on the Panera Bread Company's Sesame Chicken Salad. Luckily, they published it in their book, The Panera Bread Cookbook by Peter Reinhart. It follows:

I love the dressing too but that doesn't seem like the right recipe. I had the salad about 2 weeks ago and thought the dressing was pale colored and not dark. I think that recipe would make a dark dressing.
But it sounds good though and I could very well be wrong.
I have read that the recipes in the Panera bread cookbook are not what is served at the restaurant.

Thank You so much for posting this information. I hope the Targets in my area have it, are you in the Midwest, if you don't mind me asking? I'm in Central IL and sometimes we don't get the neat things the bigger cities get.

I'd sure be interested in finding a copycat recipe because I noticed high fructose corn syrup in the ingredients - that can't be good for us, right? Dressings with sesame oil, rice vinegar, & fresh ginger are always so refreshing. I'm going to do some hunting around - if I find something, I'll try it before posting.

I haven't tried the bottled dressing yet from Target, but we order that salad a lot at my place of work when we have lunches brought in from Paneras. There definitely isn't soy sauce it in, and it is somewhat thin, so there can't be a lot of oil. The bottled dressing starts out with water, so I am sure that is why it is so light.

Trader Joe's has an amazing bottled dressing that is so good people were nuts about it for a salad swap we had last summer. It was Asian peanut something. It seems to me that these recipes have some sugar in them though the Panera recipe doesn't list any.